life @ 30 below...

Dea - I brought the camera into the office today to take pics of us working to show how boring our lives are without your coffee distractions. but instead i got stacia giving martin a lecture about appropriate footwear at 30 below. ok so even without you here, we rarely get any work done in this office (it's no small miracle i actually finished my thesis)... we're all wondering these days why the hell we live here, because to be perfectly honest - 30 below sucks. but actually it's especially obvious why these days... because when your house burns down on christmas day you are immediately overwhelmed with generous donations - everything from boxers (that didn't even make it to laundry first), to places to live, to extremely generous $ donations.... and when your dog dies tragically while you're away you come home to a house filled with love in the form of a fridge stocked with enough food to last several months... and when your kidney suddenly fails for no good reason you don't have to look far for free airline tickets to the best hospital (not to mention smoke salmon to eat on the flight)... anyhow to put it simply - this community is awesome.

oh yeah i guess there's 3 other reasons why we live here: spring, summer, and fall.